Peculiarly American Quotes
- Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed society—to help solve our contemporary problems—seems to me a peculiarly American delusion. To write… — Jonathan Franzen
- That peculiarly American religion, President-worship. — Gore Vidal
- But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote… — David Foster Wallace